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Pierogi Ruskies: Potatoes. Cheese. Butter. The Polish are genius – this is dumpling heaven! A large play task – navigator immoderate now, frost immoderate for later. They navigator from frozen!!
A Pierogi Ruskie recipe
I’m truthful excited to beryllium bringing you this Pierogi recipe! I’d devour them each time if they didn’t extremity the scales successful the incorrect direction. 😭
Even if you haven’t tried a Pierogi before, each you request to cognize is that these ones are cheesy, creamy mashed murphy filled dumplings served with an intensely food bulb sauce.
In different words, it is each Cheese-Lovin’ Carb Monster’s Dream travel true, and she who is the aforesaid appointed Head Priestess of this Club was virtually successful mind-boggling ecstasy erstwhile faced with a sheet of these.
They are, to accidental the least, 1 of the astir delicious things I’ve eaten this year!
What are Pierogi?
Pierogi are Eastern European stuffed dumplings that are usually boiled. As with galore accepted foods, determination are determination varieties with fillings ranging from saccharine to savoury, nutrient to meatless.
This murphy and cheese-filled Pierogi look I’m sharing contiguous is simply a meatless benignant fashionable successful Poland. The filling? Cheese! Potato! Butter! Even if you’ve ne'er had 1 before, these 3 words already mean you cognize you’re going to emotion it!
What they sensation like: Pierogis are heartier and heftier than Asian dumplings similar gyoza and Chinese potstickers. The dumpling wrapper is thicker and the filling is often rich. The dumpling itself is besides bigger and heavier, and often topped with a condiment of melted butter. Tt whitethorn not beryllium the lightest of meals but it volition beryllium 1 of the champion things you devour this month!!
Ingredients successful Pierogi
Very, precise few!
THE Pierogi filling
It’s fundamentally cheesy, buttery, creamy mashed potato. See authenticity enactment beneath the photograph connected the cheese, and wherefore it was important for maine to marque this look accessible to “everyone”!
Potatoes – Use all-rounder potatoes truthful they mash up fluffy and creamy. The astir communal potatoes astatine regular stores volition beryllium good – they’re stocked due to the fact that they’re large all-rounders.
Australia – Sebago (the ungraded brushed potatoes sold everywhere) are perfect, Desiree are large too. US: Yukon Gold, russet, UK: Maris piper, King Edward.
Cheese – I usage cheddar but immoderate bully melting food you’d happily enactment successful your grilled cheese is fine. Give mozzarella a miss. While it melts great, it doesn’t person capable flavour.
Authenticity enactment – Pierogi is traditionally made with quark, a mildly tangy European cottage cheese. Quark is not thing I’ve seen often successful Australia. Cottage food is astir apt the champion substitute. But shredded cheese, arsenic you tin imagine, makes a delicious alternate – ideate it melted passim creamy mashed potato!
I opted to usage regular food due to the fact that I privation this look to beryllium arsenic accessible arsenic imaginable truthful galore radical tin acquisition the greatness that is Pieorgis.
Butter – Use unsalted truthful we tin adhd the close magnitude of salt.
Pierogi DUMPLING DOUGH
Flour – Just plain / all-purpose flour.
Large ovum – From a carton labelled “large eggs” (they should value astir 55-60g/2 oz).
Butter – Melted into the h2o that I accidentally near retired of the phot.
ONION BUTTER SAUCE
You could service the Pierogis volition conscionable melted food and you’d swoon. But it’s adjacent amended with a sautéed bulb condiment which is communal with accepted Polish Pierogis.
How to marque Pierogi
Pierogis are easier to wrapper than gyoza and potstickers. Because Asians similar pleating – which tin instrumentality signifier to master. The Polish conscionable property to seal. Much simpler! – I’m a large instrumentality
HOT TIP: Got a Pierogi itch that needs scratching but homemade wrappers are retired of reach? Use store-bought circular Asian dumpling wrappers instead. The wrappers are thinner but it works a treat!
1. CHEESY POTATO FILLING FIRST
Make the filling archetypal due to the fact that it needs 1 1/2 hours to afloat cool, during which clip you’ll person the dough rolled retired and cut, acceptable to fill!
Boil potatoes successful salted water, starting with the potatoes successful acold water. Why? Because different the extracurricular of the potatoes navigator excessively overmuch and commencement to crumble earlier the wrong is cooked.
Drain potatoes.
Mash & premix – Pass the potatoes done a murphy ricer oregon mash utilizing a regular murphy masher. Then premix successful the butter, cheese, brackish and pepper. The food won’t melt – it melts erstwhile the pierogis is boiled!
Cool – Spread retired connected to a tray. Cover with cling wrap, pressing truthful it is afloat successful contact, truthful the filling doesn’t sweat. Cool connected the antagonistic (about 30 minutes) past refrigerate until acold (1 hour+). You tin bash this the time before.
The filling needs to beryllium acold truthful it doesn’t sweat wrong the dough (which would marque the dough soggy). It’s besides easier to wrapper the dumplings due to the fact that the murphy is firm.
2. however to marque pierogi dumpling DOUGH
You could usage your stand-mixer but I bask the leisurely process of hand-kneading this dough. It’s casual to negociate due to the fact that it’s a tiny magnitude and the dough is soft. Plus, hand-kneading is somewhat satisfying, and you tin (smugly) archer everybody fortunate capable to devour 1 of these – I made these myself with my ain hands. (You cognize I do!)
Dry – Whisk the flour and brackish successful a mixing bowl.
Add bedewed – Make a good successful the centre. Then adhd melted food with lukewarm h2o positive the egg. Mix to harvester utilizing a spatula – it volition beryllium a rough, shaggy dough.
Knead – Scrape retired onto a lightly floured enactment surface. Knead for 5 minutes until the dough becomes smooth. Use the bare minimum flour arsenic needed to forestall it from sticking to your hands and the enactment surface. (Too overmuch flour = drier stiffer dough = much hard to rotation retired thinly).
Rest – Wrap with cling wrapper and permission connected the antagonistic for 30 minutes.
3. MAKING THE PIEROGIS
Roll retired the dough connected a lightly floured aboveground to 3mm / 1/8″ thickness.
Cut out rounds utilizing a 7.5 cm / 3″ cutter. Do arsenic galore arsenic you can, past stitchery surplus dough into a ball, wrapper with cling wrapper and acceptable speech to rotation retired and chopped much later.
Filling – Place 1 tablespoonful of cheesy murphy filling successful the mediate of a circular (20g, if you privation to beryllium exact!).
Dip digit with h2o and tally on borderline of fractional the circle. This volition assistance seal securely.
Fold dough implicit to enclose the filling past property the edges together.
Seal firmly by pinching to marque flimsy dents, the accepted look of pierogis.
Place them connected a lightly floured tray and proceed to wrapper remaining Pierogi (including rolling retired the remaining dough). You should get ~30 pierogis. A bully large batch – navigator immoderate now, frost immoderate for later!
4. HOW TO COOK PIEROGIS
Boil similar pasta! Just marque definite you don’t assemblage the pot. Pierogis needs abstraction to bounce around! I navigator 8 successful a mean pot, and up to 12 successful a wider pot. Tips beneath for batching cooking larger quantities.
Sauté bulb archetypal – Sauté chopped bulb successful food until aureate connected the edges. Then transportation into a vessel oregon instrumentality and usage arsenic overmuch oregon arsenic small arsenic you privation for immoderate size serving of pierogis you are making. 1 ample bulb is capable for 30 pierogis due to the fact that they are lone sparingly scattered with onion, similar pictured. Cook bulb volition support for 5 days successful the fridge, oregon freezer for 3 months.
Boil 5 minutes – Bring ~3 litres/quarts of h2o to the boil with 1 tablespoonful of salt. Lower 10 pierogis into the h2o and navigator for 5 minutes, oregon until they are floating connected the aboveground (they descend astatine first).
⚠️ As noted supra the measurement photos, don’t assemblage the cookware other the pierogis volition instrumentality unneurotic and navigator unevenly.
⚡️ It’s important to usage salted h2o truthful you get immoderate seasoning into the pierogis wrapper arsenic it cooks. Makes it tastier!
Reserve water – Dip a jug into the h2o and scoop retired 1 cupful water. We’re going to usage a spot of this h2o to marque the sauce. The cooking h2o is amended than pat h2o due to the fact that it’s got starch from the pierogi dough successful it which makes the condiment thicken. If you conscionable mixed h2o + food together, it stays water.
Scoop retired oregon drain – Then usage a slotted spoon to transportation pierogi into a bowl. Or, you tin drain successful a colander if you are not utilizing the h2o to navigator more.
Butter condiment – Using a largish pan, melt 25g food (1 1/2 tablespoons) implicit mean heat. Add 1/3 of the bulb food (from measurement 1) positive the cooked pierogis with 2 tablespoons of the reserved cooking water.
Toss for 1 minute, inactive connected the stove, until the pierogis are coated successful the food sauce. You’ll spot it goes from watery (when you archetypal adhd the water) to thickened truthful it sticks to the aboveground of the pierogi.
Larger batch – Just standard up the butter, bulb and water. At this stage, it’s casual to eye-ball it. And I wouldn’t discourage the usage of adjacent much butter!
Serve – Slide onto a serving plate, scraping retired each driblet of butter. Sprinkle with parsley, adhd a dollop of sour cream. Eat and beryllium happy!
Big-batch cooking of Pierogi
As unusual arsenic it sounds to person a full conception connected however to navigator and service larger batches of pierogi, there’s really applicable factors that travel into play that request to beryllium considered! The crushed is due to the fact that they are rather ample – bigger than Gyoza and Chinese dumplings, you can’t boil much than 10 to 12 max per batch, and they request to beryllium tossed successful the condiment connected the stove.
So the look I’m sharing contiguous makes 30 pierogis but provides directions to navigator 1 batch of 8 to 10 (which is simply a bully magnitude for 2 people). Leftovers are cleanable for freezing – you tin navigator from frozen!
But if you would similar to navigator each 30 pierogis, here’s immoderate applicable tips for however to bash it!
boiling ample batches
Pierogis request to beryllium boiled successful a azygous furniture other they tin get stuck unneurotic and the wrapping won’t navigator evenly. So you’ll max retired astatine astir 12 pierogis successful a ample home-pot.
If you privation to marque and service more, past boil successful batches of 12 and dispersed cooked pierogis connected a tray. Once you’ve boiled arsenic overmuch arsenic you want, past driblet each of them backmost into the cookware for 30 seconds to reheat earlier tossing with the butter. Reserve a mugful of the cooking water past drain successful a colander.
Large batch food condiment tossing
For the food condiment tossing part, you tin enactment successful arsenic galore pierogis arsenic you tin comfortably acceptable into a ample skillet. You could adjacent usage a ample pot. Just marque definite you tin flip the pierogis, due to the fact that that’s however you get a bully coating of food connected them.
Simple method for gigantic batches
If you privation to service each 30 pierogis astatine the aforesaid time, an casual mode to condiment them up is to marque the condiment separately past douse implicit the pierogis.
To bash this, navigator the pierogis per supra (ie boil past reheat). Drain good successful a colander and transportation into a serving bowl. Melt 70g / 4 1/2 tbsp unsalted food with 1/3 cupful of the cooking h2o successful a tiny cookware connected mean heat. Simmer for a mates of minutes until the food thickens (the starch successful the pierogi cooking h2o makes this happen).
Serving pierogis
Cooking portion done, it’s clip to bask them! A dollop of sour pick adds a beauteous cooling, tangy creamy interaction that pairs truthful good with cheesy mashed murphy (proof – scholar favourite Stuffed Baked Potatoes!). And a small sprinkle of parsley oregon chives adds a bully interaction of greenish to an different precise beige plate.
And arsenic a sheet of nutrient that is an unapologetic solemnisation of 3 of my favourite nutrient groups – butter, food and murphy – a perky caller broadside of greens would beryllium a bully accompaniment. Even this self-confessed Cheese Lovin’ Carb Monster needs thing caller to chopped done each that richness! Try a classic airy vinaigrette with leafy greens oregon immoderate steamed vegetables.
Hope you emotion this arsenic overmuch arsenic we do! Big outcry retired to our Chef JB for doing overmuch of the leg-work connected the research, improvement and investigating connected this pierogi recipe, past teaching maine and answering my many, galore questions. It’s been raining pierogis successful our kitchen!!! – Nagi x
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Pierogi Ruskies – Polish Dumplings
Ingredients
Pierogi dough:
- 2 cups flour , plain/all-purpose
- 1 tsp cooking/kosher salt
- 50g / 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 large egg , whisked (55-60g/2oz)
Pierogi filling:
- 2 x 250g/8oz medium potatoes , peeled and sliced 1cm / 1/2" heavy (Note 1)
- 1 tbsp cooking/kosher salt – for cooking potatoes
- 30g / 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese , tightly packed cupful (Note 2)
- 1/4 tsp cooking/kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Onion Butter:
- 30g/ 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 onion , finely diced
- 1/2 tsp cooking/kosher salt
Cooking and serving:
- 1 tbsp cooking/kosher salt – for boiling water
- 25g/ 1 1/2 tbsp unsalted food , per 8 – 10 pierogis (Note 3)
- Sour cream , for serving
- Parsley oregon chives , finely chopped – conscionable a pinch
Instructions
Filling:
- Boil potatoes – Put murphy and 1 tbsp brackish successful a ample saucepan. Add acold pat h2o truthful it's 3cm/1 inch supra potatoes. Bring to a boil connected precocious vigor past trim vigor to mean precocious and simmer for 15 minutes oregon until potatoes are soft.
- Mash – Drain, past walk the potatoes done a murphy ricer into a vessel (or usage murphy masher)
- Cheese it – Immediately adhd butter, cheese, brackish and pepper. Mix with a woody spoon until afloat combined.
- Cool – Spread retired ~1cm / 1/2" heavy connected a tray. Cover with cling wrap, pressing truthful it is afloat successful contact. Cool connected the antagonistic (~30 min) past refrigerate until acold (1 hour+).
Pierogi Dough:
- Melt food – Heat up the h2o and food successful a tiny saucepan implicit mean vigor conscionable until food is melted, bash not boil water. (Or bash this successful the microwave). Turn disconnected heat.
- Mix dough – Whisk the flour and brackish successful a mixing bowl. Make a good successful the centre and past adhd the food h2o positive egg. Mix to harvester into a shaggy dough.
- Knead – Scrape retired onto a lightly floured enactment surface. Knead for 5 minutes until the dough becomes creaseless (Note 3). You could besides usage your basal mixer.
- Rest – Wrap with cling wrapper and permission connected the antagonistic for 30 minutes.
Wrapping pierogis:
- Roll & chopped – On a lightly floured surface, rotation retired the dough to 3mm / 1/8" thickness. Cut retired rounds utilizing a 7.5 cm / 3" cutter. Do arsenic galore arsenic you can, past stitchery surplus dough into a ball, wrapper with cling wrapper and acceptable speech for later.
- Fill & wrapper – Place 1 tablespoonful of cheesy murphy filling successful the mediate of a round. Dip digit with h2o and tally on borderline of fractional the circle. Fold dough implicit to enclose the filling and property to seal, making flimsy indents (no pleats).
- Wrap remaining – Place them connected a lightly floured tray and proceed to wrapper remaining Pierogi (including rolling retired the remaining dough). You should get ~30 pierogis.
Onion food sauce:
- In a non instrumentality skillet, melt the food until foamy implicit mean heat. Add bulb and salt, past cook, stirring regularly, for 10 to 15 minutes until aureate connected the edges. Scrape retired into a bowl, past acceptable speech (OK to cool).
Cooking & serving pierogis:
- Batch cooking – Directions beneath are for cooking and serving 10. Boil pierogis successful batches of 10 to 12 max, they request abstraction to bounce astir successful the water, and you request abstraction to flip them successful the butter. (Note 4 for large batch cooking)
- Boil 5 minutes – Bring ~3 litres/quarts of h2o to the boil with 1 tbsp salt. Lower 10 piergosi into the water. Cook for 5 minutes – they should beryllium floating connected the surface.
- Reserve h2o & drain – Dip a jug into the h2o and scoop retired ~1 cupful water. Then usage a slotted spoon to transportation pierogi into a vessel (or drain, if not cooking more).
- Butter condiment – Melt food successful a ample skillet implicit mean heat. Add 1/3 of the bulb food positive the cooked pierogis with 2 tablespoons of the reserved cooking water. Toss for 1 minute, inactive connected the stove, until the pierogis are coated successful the butter. (Note 4 connected scaling up)
- Serve – Slide onto a serving plate, scraping retired each driblet of butter. Sprinkle with parsley, adhd a dollop of sour cream. Eat and beryllium happy!
Notes
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